Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 232 327
Rank change year-on-year -106 +95 -25
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 605 655 644
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.32% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.49% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 293 279 315
10th Percentile £36,750 £46,000 £41,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £58,375 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +1.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £88,125 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £64,108
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.51% -1.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -108 531 £60,850 -16.07% 1,591
London -24 330 £68,000 -15.00% 1,165
Work from Home +2 225 £60,000 -14.29% 559
UK excluding London -189 208 £60,000 -4.00% 574
North of England -39 61 £60,850 -21.48% 116
North West +5 39 £82,500 +17.86% 76
South East -142 39 £38,500 -38.40% 155
Midlands -46 37 £48,500 -19.83% 71
South West -73 28 £68,000 +19.83% 80
West Midlands -30 26 £48,500 -17.45% 47
East of England -42 24 £65,000 -9.72% 57
Yorkshire -46 20 £57,500 -26.98% 28
Scotland +10 13 £77,500 -4.62% 62
East Midlands -32 11 £39,194 -47.74% 24
Wales -71 3 £65,000 +8.59% 6
Northern Ireland -81 3 - - 30
North East - 2 £90,000 - 12

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 38 (6.28%) Confluence
2 16 (2.64%) CMS
3 14 (2.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 10 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (8.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.83%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.83%) Moqups
6 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 37 (6.12%) Workfront
2 10 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.83%) Shopify
4 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.50%) iTrent
4 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.17%) Eikon
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.17%) RMDS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 81 (13.39%) AWS
2 80 (13.22%) SaaS
3 51 (8.43%) iPaaS
4 50 (8.26%) Azure
5 17 (2.81%) GCP
6 15 (2.48%) Google Workspace
7 13 (2.15%) Figma
7 13 (2.15%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.98%) GitHub
9 11 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.83%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (0.83%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.83%) Zapier
14 4 (0.66%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.75%) Broadband
2 34 (5.62%) HTTP
3 10 (1.65%) Firewall
3 10 (1.65%) WAN
4 7 (1.16%) SD-WAN
5 6 (0.99%) LAN
6 5 (0.83%) DNS
6 5 (0.83%) Network Security
7 4 (0.66%) DHCP
7 4 (0.66%) Multicast
7 4 (0.66%) NGN
7 4 (0.66%) NX-OS
7 4 (0.66%) SAN
8 3 (0.50%) Intranet
8 3 (0.50%) MPLS
8 3 (0.50%) VSAT
8 3 (0.50%) WLAN
9 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.76%) Metadata
2 12 (1.98%) Power BI
3 8 (1.32%) Big Data
4 6 (0.99%) BigQuery
4 6 (0.99%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.33%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.17%) MySQL
8 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.17%) Redis
8 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (10.58%) JIRA
2 11 (1.82%) Git
3 10 (1.65%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.32%) Selenium
5 6 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.83%) Postman
7 4 (0.66%) GitLab
7 4 (0.66%) JUnit
8 2 (0.33%) TestNG
9 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 191 (31.57%) Social Skills
2 190 (31.40%) Marketing
3 189 (31.24%) Finance
4 91 (15.04%) Banking
4 91 (15.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (15.04%) Law
5 89 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (10.41%) Presentation Skills
7 59 (9.75%) Retail
8 47 (7.77%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (5.45%) Public Sector
10 29 (4.79%) Legal
10 29 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (4.13%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.98%) Telecoms
13 13 (2.15%) Back Office
13 13 (2.15%) Italian Language
14 12 (1.98%) Electronics
14 12 (1.98%) Publishing
15 11 (1.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 167 (27.60%) Product Manager
2 88 (14.55%) Lead
3 74 (12.23%) Product Owner
3 74 (12.23%) Senior
4 50 (8.26%) Software Engineer
5 38 (6.28%) Senior Manager
6 35 (5.79%) Development Engineer
6 35 (5.79%) Software Development Engineer
7 34 (5.62%) Lead Software Engineer
8 30 (4.96%) Senior Product Manager
9 20 (3.31%) Product Lead
10 18 (2.98%) Consultant
11 15 (2.48%) Development Manager
11 15 (2.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (2.31%) Technical Engineer
12 14 (2.31%) Technical Manager
13 13 (2.15%) Platform Manager
14 12 (1.98%) Support Engineer
14 12 (1.98%) Technical Support
14 12 (1.98%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.78%) REST
2 19 (3.14%) Terraform
3 15 (2.48%) Google Maps API
4 14 (2.31%) React
5 12 (1.98%) HTML
6 9 (1.49%) LangChain
7 8 (1.32%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.32%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.16%) Spring
9 6 (0.99%) Pandas
9 6 (0.99%) Spring Boot
9 6 (0.99%) XML
10 5 (0.83%) CrewAI
10 5 (0.83%) CSS
10 5 (0.83%) LlamaIndex
11 4 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.66%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.66%) NumPy
11 4 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 200 (33.06%) Product Ownership
2 64 (10.58%) Social Media
3 52 (8.60%) Marketing Technology
3 52 (8.60%) Over-the-Top Content
4 39 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 33 (5.45%) AI Agents
5 33 (5.45%) Cloud Native
6 29 (4.79%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.80%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.64%) Augmented Reality
9 15 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.48%) Virtual Reality
10 14 (2.31%) Web Conferencing
11 12 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.82%) Blog
12 11 (1.82%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.65%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.49%) Educational Technology
14 9 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.48%) Linux
2 12 (1.98%) Windows
3 4 (0.66%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (58.84%) Roadmaps
2 252 (41.65%) Agile
3 179 (29.59%) Product Roadmap
4 153 (25.29%) AI
5 144 (23.80%) Decision-Making
6 134 (22.15%) Product Vision
7 129 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 129 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 125 (20.66%) Customer Experience
9 114 (18.84%) User Stories
10 113 (18.68%) Product Backlog
11 111 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
12 92 (15.21%) Software Engineering
13 90 (14.88%) Product Strategy
14 84 (13.88%) Product Requirements
15 83 (13.72%) Analytics
16 79 (13.06%) User Experience
17 78 (12.89%) Sprint Planning
18 75 (12.40%) Project Management
19 74 (12.23%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 52 (8.60%) Java
2 39 (6.45%) Python
3 14 (2.31%) SQL
4 13 (2.15%) TypeScript
5 12 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.65%) C++
7 6 (0.99%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.99%) R
8 5 (0.83%) Bicep
9 3 (0.50%) Bash
9 3 (0.50%) C#
9 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.50%) PHP
10 2 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 144 (23.80%) Degree
2 38 (6.28%) Master's Degree
3 28 (4.63%) Security Cleared
4 26 (4.30%) MBA
5 24 (3.97%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.82%) HND
8 10 (1.65%) HNC
9 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.49%) PhD
10 7 (1.16%) CCNA
10 7 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.16%) CSPO
10 7 (1.16%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.16%) PMP
11 5 (0.83%) MCSE
12 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.50%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.50%) Dell Certification
13 3 (0.50%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.45%) QA
2 21 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.49%) GDPR
3 9 (1.49%) SLA
4 7 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.16%) PMO
5 4 (0.66%) PERC
6 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.33%) DICOM
6 2 (0.33%) GRC
6 2 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.65%) Docker
2 7 (1.16%) Firmware
3 6 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.83%) vSphere
5 4 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.99%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.50%) WSUS
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 55 (9.09%) Adobe
2 49 (8.10%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.63%) Salesforce
4 26 (4.30%) Google
5 17 (2.81%) Facebook
5 17 (2.81%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.31%) Cisco
7 12 (1.98%) Workday
8 11 (1.82%) Oracle
9 6 (0.99%) Juniper
9 6 (0.99%) VMware
10 5 (0.83%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.66%) FIS
11 4 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.50%) Aderant
12 3 (0.50%) Fujitsu
12 3 (0.50%) iManage
12 3 (0.50%) Reuters
12 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.50%) Starlink